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Landscape
Mino Maccari1923
Fondazione Musei Senesi
Siena, Italy
The painting, which is a rare document of the early painting experience of Mino Maccari, represents an hommage to Paul Cézanne, maybe by a direct knowledge of his art or probably thanks to the friend and critic Ardengo Soffici. The little cartoon is characterised by impressive brushstrokes, the use of cold and acid colours, the clear definition of enlighted and shadow elements
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Details
- Title: Landscape
- Creator Lifespan: 1898 - 1989
- Creator Nationality: Italian
- Creator Gender: male
- Creator Death Place: Rome
- Creator Birth Place: Siena
- Date Created: 1923
- painter, writer, illustrator: Mino Maccari
- collocation: Colle di Val d'Elsa, Civic and Diocesan Sacred Art Museum, Province of Siena
- Place Part Of: Province of Siena
- Physical Dimensions: w27.8 x h18.7 cm
- Artist Biography: Mino Maccari was a very important Italian writer, painter, journalist and editor. Born in Siena, he chose Colle di Val d'Elsa like an ideal homeland, and here he founded the magazine "Il Selvaggio" (The savage), one of the most representative in the 30s in Italy. He was in contact with the main intellectual of those times and very prolific in drawings, etchings, paintings and book illustrations.
- Type: oil on cartoon
- Rights: Comune di Colle di Val d'Elsa; Fondazione Musei Senesi, Fondazione Musei Senesi
- External Link: Fondazione Musei Senesi
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